Tag Archives: Wear OS

We’ve said it before, but hardware is hard, and nothing shows that better than Qualcomm’s struggle to release a decent wearable SOC. Today however we bring you renewed hope with rumours circulating about Qualcomm’s next wearable focused chip – the Snapdragon Wear 3300. While we’re a little over the future …

Without a doubt Wear OS may well be dead, or at least on life support, if it wasn’t for Fossil. The fashion brand has embraced smartwatches as an essential segment of their product line up and is responsible for the majority of the devices on the market. Fossil’s commitment hasn’t …

Wear OS is a beleaguered platform at best, but that doesn’t stop us wanting it to be better and hoping for better hardware for it to run on. The announcement of the Snapdragon 3100 Wear processor was heralded as the potential solution we had been waiting for, but alas on …

With IFA 2019 heating up over in Berlin we’re starting to see a flurry of activity. One piece of news we were expecting from Fossil / Michael Kors was the release of at least one new Wear OS powered Smart Watch, well we got 3. Meet the Michael Kors Access …

Wear OS is struggling — big time. It is no secret that Google’s wearable OS has been through a lot of changes in recent years and even with all those changes they are yet to finalise on a fluent, usable OS. Now developers are beginning to question why they are …

According to Canalys smartwatch sales in North America have increased by 38 percent over the last 12 months but worryingly Wear OS continues to trail everyone. Market research company Canalys have conducted research on the world’s more valuable wearable market — the North American market. In Q2 2019 shipments were …

Living in Australia is awesome, unless you want a decent broadband connection or the latest in technology. It seems Fossil would like to fix one of those problems. Speaking with Fossil Australia, they have confirmed that in addition to their new Generation 5 Wear OS smartwatch already being available online …

We’ve been tracking the rumours, leaks and teases for Mobvoi’s latest Wear OS smartwatch for a few weeks now, partly because we really like Mobvoi and where they’re headed, and because we really want there to be great Wear OS devices, and soon. Today’s overnight announcement of the TicWatch Pro …

Qualcomm may finally be developing a processor for the wearables market. Oh, yes you’re right – they’ve done this before, but the results weren’t so great. Since the dawn of Android Wear we have seen very few processors dedicated to smartwatches, with the original Wear 2100 and year’s Wear 3100 …

Yesterday Google announced their new feature to help improve their flailing wearable operating system — Tiles. Just a day later and it seems that Google have switching on the server-side switch for some users. Users on the WearOS subreddit have been reporting that they are seeing the new feature on …

Just last week we were lamenting the current state of Wear OS, and today Google has unveiled the next incremental swipe forward for their beleaguered wearable OS — meet Tiles. Rumoured late last week as a potential replacement for complications, Tiles instead essentially replaces the swipe right option currently used …

Yes, I know. At least half of the people who read this will be able to list the reasons they don’t want a smartwatch, a Wear OS device, or don’t even wear a watch. Some of us, though, are interested in smartwatches and some of us would like a truly …

Fossil has announced launch details of their new and upcoming smartwatches today in Sydney. The group handles watches (both smart and traditional) for a number of fashion brands like Diesel, Misfit, A|X, Skagen and more. The new watches form part of the Spring/Summer range (sorry, it’s all based on northern …

Google’s Wear OS is seemingly very stagnant at the moment but Google of course are hard at work improving it for all users. Today they have begun rolling out an update to Wear OS bringing it up to version 2.3. Several Wear OS smartwatches have today started receiving the new …

Google’s Wear OS seems to be stagnant with most people seemingly waiting for that magic silver bullet that will fix everything. Google has not given up on the fledgling OS and has signalled that with the purchase of wearable technology from Fossil. Fossil Group have today announced that they are …